The State Game Commission last week released its annual report to the House Game and Fisheries Committee, and said it had a 98.2 percent success rate in prosecutions for violations of wildlife regulations. Game wardens initiated 6,911 prosecutions and wrote 5,567 warnings.
The deer harvest increased from 376,810 in ’21-’22 to 422,960 in fiscal ‘23. That’s the second-highest total in the last seven years.
The report notes that more than 3,500 acres were added to the State Game Lands system.
Revenues for the fiscal year were more than $448 million, a 68.19 percent increase over the previous year, thanks largely to a $172 million increase in gas and oil lease royalties. Expenses for the fiscal year rose 29 percent to more than $201 million. Much of the increase was for expanded wildlife habitation measures and building and maintaining game lands roads.
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